CalFresh Maximum Certification Periods

CDSS has provided information about amendments to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18910.1 that requires counties to assign the maximum certification period allowable for the household type.  The maximum certification period is generally 12 months.  Households in which all adult members are elderly or disabled are certified for 24 months.  Households with only elderly and/or disabled members with no earned income are assigned a 36 month certification period.

Any determination of a certification shorter than 12 months should be made on a case-by-case basis.  (ACL 17-101, December 22, 2017.)